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In this June 22, 2016 photo, a Border Patrol agent walks along a border structure in San Diego. Only about one of every three applicants passes CBP's polygraph, which is barely half the pass rate among law enforcement agencies that provided data to The Associated Press under open-records law requests. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

Judge: Obama DOJ had 132 ethical lapses in last four years

Federal Judge Andrew S. Hanen said the Justice Department has notched 132 different cases of self-reported ethical misconduct in just four years -- with more than two dozen of those involving lawyers misleading the courts.

January 19, 2017
FILE - In this Nov. 13, 2016, file photo, Central American migrants newly released after processing by the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol are fitted for shoes at the Sacred Heart Community Center in the Rio Grande Valley border city of McAllen, Texas. Central Americans attempting to enter the United States illegally on the country's border with Mexico helped drive a 15 percent increase in immigration arrests during the 2016 fiscal year, according to U.S. Department of Homeland Security figures released Friday, Dec. 30. 2016. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

Illegal immigrant families surge across border

More than 23,000 illegal immigrant children and families were nabbed on the southwest border in December, according to Border Patrol statistics released this week that show the administration still struggling to deal with a problem that's now dogged it for three years.

January 19, 2017
The U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo is relatively empty these days, but the population is likely to rise during the Trump administration. (Associated Press)

Obama’s errors leave Gitmo promise unfulfilled

It was the defining promise of the early days of the "hope and change" administration: President Obama would signal a new era of U.S. engagement with the world by closing, within a year, the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

January 18, 2017
FILE - In this Jan. 12, 2017 file photo, Defense Secretary-designate James Mattis listens on Capitol Hill in Washington while testifying at his confirmation hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee. Some of President-elect Donald Trump’s most important Cabinet choices are at odds with him on matters that were dear to his heart as a campaigner and central to his promises to supporters. For the Pentagon, the CIA, the State Department and more, Trump has picked people who publicly disagree with him on some cornerstones of his agenda In confirmation hearings. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

James Mattis clears committee, poised for quick confirmation

Gen. James Mattis on Wednesday won the overwhelming backing of the Senate Armed Services Committee to be the next Defense Department secretary, leaving him in good position to be one of President-elect Donald Trump's first Cabinet nominees to be approved.

January 18, 2017
Congress spent less time in session, handled less business on the chamber floors and generally sputtered for much of President Obama's tenure. (Associated Press)

Obama scores poorly in working with Congress on legislation

President Obama oversaw the deepest legislative malaise in modern political history, according to the Washington Times Legislative Index, which captures his struggles to find ways to work with a Congress that ranged from lukewarm to openly hostile toward him.

January 17, 2017
FILE - In this Dec. 12, 2016, file photo, Interior Secretary-designate Rep. Ryan Zinke, right, R-Mont., arrives in Trump Tower, in New York, Monday, Dec. 12, 2016. Zinke says he would never sell, give away or transfer public lands, a crucial stance in his home state of Montana and the West, where access to hunting and fishing is considered sacrosanct. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

Ryan Zinke defends expansive federal reach in land policies

Rep. Ryan Zinke, the nominee to head the Interior Department, will cast himself Tuesday as a champion of the federal government expanding its reach over federal lands, in a move that could signal friction with his own GOP colleagues.

January 17, 2017
The Pentagon needs more fighter aircraft, an increase in the number of Navy ships, a higher number of Marines and Air Force personnel and a major modernization of the Army, military leaders say. (Associated Press/File)

John McCain plans massive boost in spending to build military

Sen. John McCain called Monday for a massive boost in defense spending totaling more than $85 billion per year over the next half-decade, saying that is just the beginning of what it will take to restore the U.S. military to a dominant role.

January 16, 2017
Lockheed Martin CEO Marillyn Hewson talks to reporters in the lobby of Trump Tower in New York, Friday, Jan. 13, 2017, after a meeting with President-elect Donald Trump. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Lockheed Martin changes tune, says it can cut costs on F-35

Lockheed Martin CEO Marillyn Hewson returned to Trump Tower Friday to promise President-elect Donald Trump she'll drive down the costs of the F-35, as she tries to save her company's lucrative but troubled contract for the fighter jet.

January 13, 2017
"There won't be a deportation force," House Speaker Paul D. Ryan told CNN in a town hall. (Associated Press)

Paul Ryan rules out Donald Trump’s ‘deportation force’

House Speaker Paul D. Ryan said Thursday that illegal immigrant Dreamers don't have to worry about being deported under a Trump administration, telling a mother that there won't be a deportation force "knocking on your door this year."

January 12, 2017
FILE - In this July 7, 2015, file photo, immigrants from El Salvador who entered the country illegally walk through a bus after they were released from a family detention center in San Antonio. Central Americans attempting to enter the United States illegally on the country's border with Mexico helped drive a 15 percent increase in immigration arrests during the 2016 fiscal year, according to U.S. Department of Homeland Security figures released Friday, Dec. 30. 2016. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

New push for temporary amnesty emerges on Capitol Hill

A bipartisan coalition on Capitol Hill introduced legislation Thursday to grant young adult illegal immigrants here under President Obama's 2012 amnesty a more permanent legal status, saying the bill will protect them from deportations while Congress works out a more permanent solution.

January 12, 2017